Biotech for Environment Greens and others in the European Parliament reportedly reacted badly to rapporteur Jessica Polfjärd's initiative that would broaden the EU Commission’s proposal for lessening regulation of new genomic techniques. Yet it is genetic modification technologies that are going to enable the EU to meets its goal of curbing nitrogen losses in agriculture. Polfjärd’s proposal would expand the use of NGT to organic production, which proponents of organic food argue violates the very premise of this production technique. However, organic production leaches nitrogen just like conventional production and the manure delivers fewer nutrients. A lot more plants could fix nitrogen and solve the leaching proble...
Key Market Insights The broad market is locked in on this week’s Trump-Xi meeting in Beijing, but this is no longer just a trade summit. Increasingly, the meeting is becoming tied directly to Iran, energy security, and the growing global economic fallout from disruptions through the Strai...
From WPI Consulting
Communicating importance of value-added products
Facing increasing pressure to quantify the value of export promotion efforts to investors, a U.S. industry organization retained WPI to develop a quantitative model that better communicated the importance of exports. The resulting model concluded that value-added meat exports contributed $0.45 cents per bushel to the price of corn, increasing support for that sector’s financial support of WPI’s client. In addition to serving the red meat industry with this type of analysis, WPI has generated similar deliverables for the U.S. soybean and poultry/egg industries.